FAUST PARTS I AND II Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth A classic for all time. FAUST is a monumental poetic drama of man's eternal search for the meaning of life. Based on the legend of Doctor Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for infinite knowledge, Goethe's FAUST stands as a compelling symbolic treatment of man's creative aspirations. Filled with the rich, singing web of Goethe's p... more »oetry, FAUST is more than anything the philosophic distillation of Goethe's own event-filled life. One of the crowning glories of German literature, it became in the author's lifetime a cornerstone of modern world literature.
This edition employs the renowned Bayard Taylor translation, modernized in spelling and punctuation.
Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Scenna, Professor of German, Amherst College.« less